Monday, May 22, 2017

Capano tries to show that he is defending Donald Trump by quoting and applauding Michael Grimm

A few days
ago, I wrote that the Republican
candidates for the City Council from the 43rd District were way
behind in fund raising --- now,
it looks like these campaigns are suffering from many, many practical deficits, including moral ones --- which deficits will be as much a drag on their campaigns as their relative lack
of $$$$$

In my
opinion, Bob Capano has just made a
major blunder by suddenly carrying water for an infamous Michael Grimm --- to
quote Capano’s own press release: “Capano Applauds
Former Congressman Michael Grimm Call for President Trump to Exercise ‘Bold
Leadership’ In Face Of Media Creating ‘Scandal After Scandal’”

Make no mistake about it, for
some reason Bob Capano has come down foursquare behind the disgraced former
Congressman and convicted felon Michael Grimm and Grimm’s latest pronouncement
supporting President Trump; and Bob Capano’s most up to date press release clearly
shows that.

CAPANO'S RELEASE PUTS IT RIGHT UP FRONT IN THE FIRST TWO PARAGRAPHS

“Bob Capano, the leading Republican
candidate for Brooklyn's 43rd Council District (Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bath
Beach, Bensonhurst) today applauded a recent statement sent to media outlets by
former Brooklyn Republican Congressman Michael Grimm defending President Trump
and calling on him to ‘fight fire with fire’ in the face of ‘every element of
opposition power against him, and from every angle: the media, the Democrats,
Hollywood, the Establishment and the deeply rooted bureaucrats in every agency
that actually regulates the entire country’….
Bob Capano, who manages a business in the private sector, said ‘Congressman
Grimm once again demonstrates his political outsider bona fides that
Republicans respect. We need leaders at all levels of government who will not
be part of the status quo political establishment that exists among Democrats
and Republicans. President Trump proved last November that voters want change.
Congressman Grimm upset the status quo during his time in office and President
Obama's administration made him pay for it. I am pleased that Michael Grimm is
still standing up and being vocal in our community. Republicans need to step up
and fight for their President instead of playing it safe.’…” (See Capano’s Press Release [contact Vito
Palmieri], 5/21/17 [http://bobcapano.com/capano-says-republicans-need-to-step-up-fight-for-president-instead-of-playing-it-safe/]).

Somebody should have told Bob C that quoting a disgraced politician,
who was removed from his elective office
because of a criminal conviction, is not
the way to go when speaking out about a current scandal involving a possible criminal investigation.

DON’T GET ME WRONG ABOUT THIS

I think that Bob’s strong support of President Trump is a good
thing. In fact, making it a part of his
campaign by way of a press release is a ballsy move. However, Capano’s quoting Grimm and “applauding” him in even
the slightest was such a big mistake that I do have to characterize it as a
>>> BLUNDER ! ! ! <<<

WILL BREDDERMAN’S ARTICLE IN THE OBSERVER GIVES MORE COMPLETE PICTURE THAN STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE COVERAGE OF GRIMM'S LATEST RANT & R-R-R-RAGE --- IN A LINE THAT TELLS IT ALL ABOUT GRIMM, HE.TELLS TRUMP TO “… BE OFFENSIVE…” --- AND GET A LOAD OF THAT FILE PICTURE OF GRIMM SPEAKING NEXT TO FV-M AT A BROOKLYN EVENT

THE ADVANCE PIECE IS TAME BY COMPARISON

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and boy does the picture of Michael Grimm, with a Brooklyn politico at his side in the New York Observer, ever tell the tale, in spades. As if that picture wasn’t enough, the Will Bredderman’s in depth article for the Observer quotes former Congressman Grimm as follows: “…. President Trump needs to fight fire with fire…. He needs to go it alone, and be offensive….” (See “Convicted Ex-Congressman Urges Trump to ‘Fight Fire With Fire’ Amid Spreading Scandal” by Will Bredderman, 5/19/17, The Observer [http://observer.com/2017/05/convicted-congressman-michael-grimm-donald-trump-russia-james-comey-fbi-robert-mueller/]).

In a much more subdued and less flavorful bit of coverage of Grimm’s advice to President Trump, the SI Advance quotes the most inflammatory part of Grimm’s rant as follows: “Former Rep. Michael Grimm has penned a letter of advice to President Donald Trump, suggesting he ‘go on the offense’ against Democrats who seek to destroy him, seeing, as Grimm put it, ‘they have employed the “play book” that they regularly use on opponents.’…" [the poor syntax suggests a cleaned-up quote] (See “Michael Grimm has some advice for President Trump's woes” by Rachel Shapiro, 5/19/17, SI Advance/ silive.com [http://www.silive.com/news/2017/05/michael_grimm_has_some_advice.html]).

Hey Gail and 11:01 AM, lately Bob Capano couldn't get coverage if he did set himself on fire. Meanwhile, Liam McCabe has become the most attractive pirate since the days of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power. Pirate of the other guy's events that is. This time Liam hijacked a street fair on Bay Ridge Avenue intended to be for the "political benefit" of El-Yateem and he was rewarded with some very good coverage, right up there with El-Yateem in the Brooklyn Eagle.

6:19, what is your point? I know that you have a point to make, but I'm not sure what it is.It could be that you meant that Brooklyn Eagle coverage wasn't important when Capano got it and it still isn't important now that Liam gets it, or does it mean that it was important before when it was about Bob and the same is true for Liam now. Could it be possible that you meant something else that I don't see at all?

9:16, you of all people should get this. The court has recently made it clear that Grimm is still being punished for his crimes. People like you, want everybody to overlook the fact that Michael Grimm swore that he did commit all of the crimes alleged in his 30 page, 20 count indictment, including but not limited to the concealment of over a million dollars of gross receipts from federal and state tax authorities, and lying under oath in a federal lawsuit brought by employees that he victimized. Don't forget he was a former FBI Agent, and accountant and a lawyer, at the time he paid people under the table, shorted their pay and cooked the books of his business. A little while ago, the sentencing court would not allow Grimm to apply for re-admission to the bar while still being punished for his crimes.

IF I WERE ONE OF THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR CITY COUNCIL IN THE 43RD DISTRICT OR ANY OF THEIR INTERESTED SUPPORTERS, I'D RATHER KIBBITZ ABOUT THE NORWEGIAN PARADE THAN TALK ABOUT THE COMPARATIVE DEFICITS OF EACH OF THE GOP CANDIDATES

MY POST ABOVE POINTED OUT WHAT I THOUGHT WAS A SERIOUS BLUNDER BY BOB CAPANO --- THAT BLUNDER OPENED BOB UP TO SOME SERIOUS SCRUTINY BOTH AS TO HIS JUDGMENT AND AS TO HIS ABILITY TO IDENTIFY THE PRESENCE AND REALITY OF SERIOUS MORAL ISSUES WHEN THEY ARE RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF HIM

OF COURSE, I DOUBT THAT MANY OF BOB'S FELLOW GOP CONTENDERS AND/OR THEIR SUPPORTERS WOULD DARE TO BRING ANY OF THAT UP IN THE CONTEXT OF A PRIMARY CAMPAIGN --- THAT'S BECAUSE BOB'S OPPONENTS, BE THEY OTHER CANDIDATES OR THEIR SUPPORTERS, WOULD HAVE TO SHOW THAT THEY HAD SOMETHING TO SHOW TO THE COMMON GOP FOLKS THAT IS BETTER THAN WHAT BOB SAID AND DID, IN THIS INSTANCE VIS A VIS WHAT MIKE GRIMM HAD TO SAY ABOUT HOW PRESIDENT TRUMP NEEDED TO HANG TOUGH AND/OR FIGHT BACK

Gail, let's face it you don't like the former congressman, because you the representative and your seconds got into it at a bar a couple of years back, and then you started your character assassination of Grimm on this blog.

Bob Capano made no mistake in his defense of President Trump..... His BLUNDER was applauding a convicted felon in the process..... However, with blunders like that, your estimate of 11% is a possibility (but don't forget, I did point out that I thought ALL the other candidates had their own very serious deficits as well).....

My like or dislike of former Congressman Michael Grimm is completely irrelevant.... What some people call "character assassination" I call "the truth" or "a fact in the record" or in some instances "fair comment and criticism." I made many of my truthful remarks about Congressman Grimm long before my confrontation with him and his "body man" at Ceol a few years back. And Russell Gallo was NOT my "second." I'm sure he saw what was going down, and thought he might like a piece of the action.

Like I said some things just aren't "character assassination"; discussing the terms and conditions of somebody's guilty plea are "fair comment..." about "facts in the record"..... Grimm's allocution to his deeds as they are stated in the indictment sort of says it all.

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